Greylock Thunder Successful in First Day of Home Event
The Thunder is welcoming in three other travel teams for a two-day round-robin event that concludes on Sunday afternoon.
Greylock won the first game, 4-3, over the Valley Storm of Greenfield.
It then trailed, 6-0, in the third inning of its second game against the Reds.
But the Thunder stormed back, eventually tying it with a four-run fifth and winning in a walkoff the next inning, the last allowed under the event’s time limit.
Lane started the winning rally by reaching on an infield error to lead off the inning.
Kendall Moran then sacrificed to move Lane over, but an error on the play allowed Moran to reach base and Lane to score the winning run.
Bayleigh Tatro went 3-for-4 against the Reds. Sydney Payson, Genevieve Lagess and Reagan Walker each had a pair of hits, and Evy Clairmont doubled in the win.
Moran went the distance in the circle, settling down after Columbia County’s five-run second inning to give seven runs with two strikeouts.
Lane won the opener in the circle on Saturday morning, giving up just one earned run and striking out eight in five innings of work.
The Thunder took a 2-1 lead in the third when Tatro doubled in a run, but the Storm came back with a run in the bottom of the fourth to tie it.
In the fifth, Payson got the Thunder started with a leadoff triple, and the team used a walk to Lagess, a wild pitch and an error to generate two runs and take a 4-2 lead.
The Valley Storm used a leadoff single and an error to put a runner in scoring position with no out in the bottom of the inning. A sacrifice bunt moved that runner to third, and she scored on a passed ball. But Lane got the next two hitters on called third strikes to end the inning and the game.
Greylock plays three more games on Sunday, starting with the Latham (N.Y.) Lynx at 9 a.m. before getting rematches against the Reds and Storm.
Photos from this event to come.
